Shapaja (TAR-13) (Oligocene of Peru)

Also known as TAR 13

Where: Peru (6.6° S, 76.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 6.2° S, 67.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tinguirirican mammal zone, Pozo Shale Member (Pozo Formation), Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 27.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; fine-grained sandstone

• tidally-influenced fine sandstones

•Channelized blue clay lens with plurimillimetric limestone nodules. Fluvio-littoral setting.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Boivin, L. Marivaux, F. Pujos, R. Salas-Gismondi, J. V. Tejada-Lara, R. M. Varas-Malca, and P.-O. Antoine. 2018. Early Oligocene caviomorph rodents from Shapaja, Peruvian Amazonia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 311(1-6):87-156 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199561: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 31.01.2019, edited by Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Trichodactylidae
Trichodactylidae indet. Milne-Edwards 1853 crab
Actinopteri
 Characiformes - Cynodontidae
cf. Hydrolycus sp. Lundberg 1997
 Characiformes - Anostomidae
cf. Leporinus sp. Lundberg 1997
Leporinus sp. Lundberg 1997
Mammalia
 Pyrotheria -
Pyrotheria indet. Ameghino 1895 placental
cf. Griphodon sp. Anthony 1924 placental
 Rodentia -
Caviomorpha indet. Wood and Patterson 1955 caviomorph
 Rodentia - Agoutidae
? Eoincamys sp. Frailey and Campbell 2004 caviomorph
MUSM 2970
Eoincamys valverdei Boivin et al. 2018 caviomorph
MUSM 2969
 Rodentia - Echimyidae
Adelphomyinae indet. Patterson and Pascual 1968 spiny rat
MUSM 2968
 Rodentia -
cf. Tarapotomys sp. Boivin et al. 2018 caviomorph
MUSM 2967
 Tribosphenida -
Marsupialiformes indet. Vullo and Gheerbrant 2009 metatherian
Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Potamotrygonidae
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray
neonate tooth
unclassified
  -
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
seeds